Advice wanted on a Lanes Patent Ball Trigger Gem

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Thanks for all the suggestions, very useful.
Matt has carried out a bit of detective work and found that I bought this gun on the forum 14 years ago. I had completely forgotten. I must have had other more pressing projects on at the time and put this in a cupboard and forgot all about it. I am going to get it into a fully functioning condition and then decide what to do with it.

I also did a bit of research into its origins using John Atkins' articles in Airgunner as source, and John says that the ball trigger design (which uses a ball bearing as the sear) was patented by John Lane , Ernest Lane and Charles Lane in October 1895. The guns that Lanes produced incorporating this design were based on imported German and Belgian Gem-types.